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The NHS is here to help. Feelings of anxiety and depression can affect us all. If you need help with your mental health, you can refer yourself, or your GP can refer you.
Deprescribing is considered a potential intervention with reported safety and feasibility. [12] [13] For a wide range of medications, including diuretics, blood pressure medication, sedatives, antidepressants, benzodiazepines and nitrates, adverse effects of deprescribing are rare.
Methods of prevention include gradually decreasing the dose among those who wish to stop, though it is possible for symptoms to occur with tapering. [2] [6] [4] Treatment may include restarting the medication and slowly decreasing the dose. [2] People may also be switched to the long-acting antidepressant fluoxetine which can then be gradually ...
Peer support groups, such as survivingantidepressants.org, provide a medium where those tapering medication can discuss approaches and withdrawal symptoms. [12] Surviving antidepressants advocate for a slower rate of tapering than that used in standard medical practice.
Taper and conservative switch with a medication-free washout period. ... Don’t ever adjust your dosage or stop taking your antidepressant without talking to your healthcare provider or ...
The aim of this study was to review all available evidence to determine the likely incidence of discontinuation symptoms directly caused by stopping antidepressants, the probable incidence of ...
The stopping of antidepressants for example, can lead to antidepressant discontinuation syndrome. With careful physician attention, however, medication prioritization and discontinuation can decrease costs, simplify prescription regimens, decrease risks of adverse drug events and poly-pharmacy, focus therapies where they are most effective, and ...
This warning states that antidepressant medications are associated with an increased risk for thoughts of death and/or behavior in children and/or young adults. For many antidepressants, this risk ...